I Have Found the Book!

Imagine if you were sitting in an aeroplane on a long-haul flight, and you hear an announcement from the pilot, “I have found the flight plan.” Firstly, you’d wonder how for so long no one had noticed this vital information was missing. Then, I think you’d be fairly keen to know that the flight was now on that right path!

Now jump to the Bible and the people of Israel in 2 Kings 22. The ‘people of God’ didn’t even notice that His very words were missing from among them. The king was supposed to read the Book of the Law before the people every year. This hadn’t happened for years. It had got lost in the temple of God, the place where it should have been the centre of sacrifices and worship.

How is that possible? The words of God were to be prized and treasured...and obeyed. That was the problem. Israel couldn’t obey the words, so they ignored the words with a blatant disregard for God’s honour and a despicable desire for doing evil. And then, inevitably, they forgot the words. It was as though they’d never existed.

BUT... “Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law...” (verse 8) What a moment for Israel! Wiping the dust of the Book God had written. What a moment for Josiah the king! He can either allow these words to come out in the open to everyone’s humiliation (and the inevitable demand for change). Or he can hide it away again and save all the hassle of reforming a nation. He chose to open the Word of God and take it seriously and God blessed him for it (verses 18-20).

How many of us have the Word of God in our homes (and even in our churches) sitting in cobwebbed corners collecting dust? How often do we sit back and wait for the plane to drop out of the sky before we wake up to our own lack of direction in life? Finding the book is more than mere identification. It’s seeing what is sweeter than honey and feasting on it continually. Have you found the Word of God? And are you going to open it and see what happens?!

Evolution - Nuff Said!

This is a nice quirky video questioning some of the assumptions evolutionists make.